In the 12 months to the end of January, gin sales in UK shops reached £401m, up 10% on the previous year.
Many of these dozen-employee, million-dollar-a-year shops, long the heart and soul of the local industry, are being left behind by the few remaining prime contractors, whose escalating technological requirements and ever tougher price and delivery demands put even more subcontracting work beyond the small shops' reach.
Some shops reach out to kids, while others are decidedly UN-friendly to children.
Consumers are expected to spend £1.2bn as Christmas shopping reaches fever-pitch on what has been dubbed "panic Saturday".
The shop reached a national audience in 1982 with the publication of "The Silver Palate Cookbook" (Workman), which has sold more than two and a half million copies.
The film might have disappointed critics and audiences, meeting with middling reviews and mediocre box office, but YouTube views of the prank, which involved a fake telekinetic customer causing chaos in a coffee shop, reached a huge 61m.
Online holiday shopping reached record levels in 2010.
Many have noted how this year was when mobile shopping reached record levels this holiday season, and shopkick definitely benefited from that rising tide.
Apprupt, the affiliate network for mobile apps, has today announced a further partnership with RTL interactive, specifically extending its "app shop" reach to the European broadcaster's iPad users, a first for the startup.
Police in Kootenai County said the "tragic accident" involved the young boy, who had been left inside a shopping trolley, reaching into his mother's purse and firing the small-caliber weapon a single time.
